Universal #609

Legacy number: 609

 Number  606
 Original  If there are two verb-lexicalization rules in a language such that the two meaning characterization contrast only in the quantity or quality of some noun phrase referent involved in the event, this noun phrase constituent will be either an object or an intransitive subject, but not a transitive subject.
 Standardized  If there are two verb-lexicalization rules in a language such that the two meaning characterization contrast only in the quantity or quality of some noun phrase referent involved in the event, this noun phrase constituent will be either an object or an intransitive subject, but not a transitive subject.
 Keywords  lexicalization, intransitive subject, transitive subject, object
 Domain  syntax
 Type  no genuine implication; rather: provided that
 Status  achronic
 Quality  absolute
 Basis  languages mentioned in Moravcsik 1978d
 Source  Moravcsik 1978d: 272

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